Adam Cohen is a staff writer for Charged Affairs. He is a research assistant at a top think tank in Washington, DC., where his work centers on the U.S. National Security Council and U.S. national security decision-making.

President Obama joins former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail this week. After a contentious primary campaign against Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the president proffered his endorsement upon his...

Late last month, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani stuck a fork in his National Unity Government’s (NUG) pursuit of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban. Vowing to take a more militant approach to the insurgent group whose...

Sound decision-making rests on two pillars: accurate information and a keen intellect with which to process it. This is no less true for world leaders running a top-secret counterterrorism operation than it is for young...

In December 2009, President Barack Obama traveled to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and announced his plan to deploy an additional 30,000 service members to reinvigorate the Afghanistan War. He returned to the elite...